Item #001685 L'histoire de l'ingenieux et redoutable Chevalier Dom Quichot de la Manche. Miguel de CERVANTES.
L'histoire de l'ingenieux et redoutable Chevalier Dom Quichot de la Manche

Very rare early edition of Don Quixote in French

L'histoire de l'ingenieux et redoutable Chevalier Dom Quichot de la Manche.

Paris: Jean Mestais, 1625.

3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #001685

8vo (162 x 103 mm), [8], 877 [i.e. 835], [5] pp., 2 final blanks. Contemporary full vellum (soiled, front hinge broken), title with ornamental woodcut, woodcut initials throughout text, numerous mispaginations, pages with marginal damp staining and worming, first two blanks trimmed 25 mm parallel to gutter. Provenance: Irmgard von Hebra (inscription to inner front cover), I. Fleflet (inscription to title). ----

Third French Edition of the second part of Don Quichote. Palau 52697; Rius 463 (knows only 4th edition, 1628). Exceedingly rare edition. Worldcat lists only one repository (Sorbonne, Paris), one copy is in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München and another in Spain (BNE). No copy at auctions internationally for at least 50 years.

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